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The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Boris Johnson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth... |
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Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan
Ian Bell · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The second volume in Ian Bell's magisterial two-part biography of the ever-evolving and enigmatic Bob Dylan By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that... |
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Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Walter Stahr · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition |
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From one of our most acclaimed new biographers—the first full life of the leader of Lincoln’s “team of rivals” to appear in more than forty years.William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York... |
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A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
J. Craig Venter · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific historyOf all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. In A Life... |
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The Lost Daughter: A Memoir
Mary Williams · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover |
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A daughter of the Black Panther movement tells her remarkable life story of being raised amid violence and near-poverty, adopted as a teenager by Jane Fonda, and finding her way back home. Â As she grew up in 1970s Oakland, California, role models for Mary Williams were few and far between... |
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Jesus: The Human Face of God
Jay Parini · New Harvest; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Jay Parini brings a lifes worth of contemplation on Jesus to the first volume in ICONS, a series of brief, thought-provoking biographies edited by James Atlas. In Jesus, Parini turns the powerful narrative skill hes wielded over the course of a four-decade career to a figure whos dominated... |
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Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Allen Barra · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover |
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Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they... |
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